The slight ethical inaccuracy in that statement doesn't drive you mad? In many ways, I'm envious
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Replying to @BristolBen @IonaItalia and
What's inaccurate? A lot of our concern for the opposite sex does relate to the ones we love.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia and
Understandable but the point of ethics is to extend our concerns beyond our kin and in-group.
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Replying to @BristolBen
I don't understand your objection to this. You seem to feel it rules out ethical principles or undermines them in some way.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It makes ethical concerns contigent on having an emotional relationship with someone:"You deserve rights because you are loved"
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Replying to @BristolBen
No, it doesn't. Why would it? There is no reason to think there are not ethical reasons for gender equality too.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I know that you know that. Others might be led to believe that "because you care about them" is *the* ethical argument.
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Replying to @BristolBen @HPluckrose
which can lead to: "I don't particularly care about *these* other people, therefore they need not have rights"
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Replying to @BristolBen
If they saw this as an attempt at ethical reasoning, yes. I really don't think many ppl would mistake it for one.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
That's how I saw it. Perhaps others don't. I can also remind myself that this really isn't a big deal.
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It's not, no. We both know he was well-intentioned.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yes. I disagree with it (slightly) for quite different reasons than Feminists but I'm quite sympathetic to it, really.
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